Will this old hardware work as a NAS/Plex Server

[TruncateTable]

I currently have a old server with a Xeon E5640, 16 Gb of DDR3 1333 Mbps ECC RAM, If I chuck some hard drives in this and set it up as a plex server am is going to have a good experience or is it to old to run plex with out hiccups. I do also have room to put a graphics card in if it would help the plex experience but it would have to get the power from the PCIe2 x16 slot.

[Master Disaster]

Thats WAAAAY more than you need for Plex. An external GPU will only help if you need to transcode HEVC/X265 or 2160p content on the fly, in most cases its not required.

 

Edit - IIRC there are some restrictions on which GPUs work. I think its that AMD GPUs don't work where as Intel or Nvidia do but I could be wrong on that.

[WillLTT]

11 minutes ago, TruncateTable said:

I currently have a old server with a Xeon E5640, 16 Gb of DDR3 1333 Mbps ECC RAM, If I chuck some hard drives in this and set it up as a plex server am is going to have a good experience or is it to old to run plex with out hiccups. I do also have room to put a graphics card in if it would help the plex experience but it would have to get the power from the PCIe2 x16 slot.

Plex has a minimum requirements page.

 

https://support.plex.tv/articles/200375666-plex-media-server-requirements/

[TruncateTable]

Thanks for the replies. I thought I would be enough, but would rather ask people who know rather than spend the time setting it up to find out it does not work and scratching my head to find out why. I guess I have my evening planned out now.